Sustainable Site Design Criteria, Process, and Case Studies for Integrating Site and Region in Landscape Design.pdf

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SCHWAB Criteria, Process, and Case Studies
A new framework for designing sustainable landscapes
that respond to the opportunities and challenges for Integrating Site and Region
of their surrounding regions
Sustainable
From project inception through implementation, Sustainable Site Design sets forth prehensive in Landscape Design
approach to context-informed sustainable landscape design. This approach emphasizes the need to under-
stand each site’s unique potential for sustainability, especially in relation to the ecological, social, economic,
and cultural conditions of its regional setting. The book aims to integrate the concerns of regenerative
landscape function with the quest for memorable, meaningful form.
Chapter 1 introduces the framework, developing a set of fi ve criteria to help you defi ne the sustainable
es for any landscape design project: connectivity, purpose, meaning, effi ciency, and stewardship.
The remaining chapters address six essential questions to guide the design process to fulfi ll these criteria:
• What people, resources, and strategies help guide sustainable site programming?
• How are the needs of project stakeholders incorporated into project scoping and direction?
• What site design potentials are revealed by the site-to-context relationship?
• How is sustainable design articulated through cohesive, artful, and well-crafted forms and space?
• How does design effi ciency serve multiple goals in sustainable landscape design?
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• How can design incorporate meaning to connect user and place?
In addition to offering strategies and methods that address these questions, each chapter is centered on
a detailed and heavily illustrated case study of a built landscape architectural project. These case studies
represent a broad range of design styles, scales, locations, and programs.
Following the authors’ careful guida